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 Photo via DOT presentation. In the last couple of years, community groups and the Department of Transportation have been working on a bring some degree of order to the parking and sidewalk chaos in Chinatown and parts of the Lower East Side. At a recent Community Board meeting, the DOT presented a draft of its “Chinatown … Continue reading  
 Screen grab from Bike Share web site. Today the city unveiled the preliminary locations for its new Bike Share program. You can click here for an interactive map showing the locations in each neighborhood. The program launches in July. it will cost $95/year to join the Bike Share program or $9.95 for 24 hours. There’s no … Continue reading
 Sheldon Silver, Daniel Squadron, Margaret Chin, Janette Sadik-Khan and community activists at today's news conference. Will Albany finally pass legislation to regulate those “Chinatown buses,” which have caused so many safety and “quality of life” issues in Lower Manhattan in recent years? State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and State Senator Daniel Squadron have been trying for … Continue reading
For the past couple of years, local elected officials have been pushing to regulate those so-called “Chinatown buses,” which have been such a big problem throughout Lower Manhattan. But legislation in Albany setting up a permit system in New York City had been blocked by Senate Republicans. We just received a news advisory from State Senator … Continue reading
 Proposed Delancey Street reconfiguration. Image: DOT rendering. Tonight Community Board 3′s Transportation Committee will resume its discussion regarding safety improvements along Delancey Street. Last month, the Department of Transportation proposed several changes to address community concerns in the aftermath of numerous pedestrian accidents. These changes include narrowing Delancey by creating pedestrian plazas, changing some traffic patterns … Continue reading
A big mess of Hester Street between Mott and Mulberry today. Crews are digging into the street, trying to repair a broken water main as well as a collapsed sewer. A private construction company was working on Hester when the mishap happened, about 1 a.m. It seems likely the street will be closed for much of … Continue reading
There’s been a lot of talk about safety on Delancey Street recently. Tonight, the Department of Transportation will broaden their focus somewhat, during a joint meeting of Community Boards 2 and 3. The DOT will present findings from the Bowery/Houston/Bleecker/Transportation Study. You can see the study area boundaries in the map posted above. Following the presentation, residents … Continue reading
It doesn’t happen for another week, but this is going to be a big inconvenience for a lot of people, so here’s an early head’s up about a total overnight shutdown of subway service to/from the Lower East Side. As part of the MTA’s new “Fastrack” program, the B, D, F and M trains will be … Continue reading
Kurt Kavanagh of the East Village Community Coalition asked us to pass along the following announcement: the organization, along with the Local Spokes coalition “hosting a community visioning session for bicycling in the East Village, Lower East Side and Chinatown on Monday, February 13th. Please share your thoughts of how bicycling can further benefit our great … Continue reading
 Images from DOT presentation. Early this morning we posted our report from last night’s Community Board 3 meeting, where city officials unveiled their plan for improving safety on Delancey Street. The slides used in their presentation are now available online. You can see all of them here. Click through to see some of the key … Continue reading
DOT rendering. Last night the general public got a first look at the Department of Transportation’s plan to finally make Delancey Street safer. You’re looking at an image from a PowerPoint presentation illustrating a big part of the proposal — carving out pedestrian safe zones on the edges of the street, one of Manhattan’s widest thoroughfares. … Continue reading
Delancey Street, at Clinton. This evening the Department of Transportation will formally unveil its plan to improve safety on Delancey Street. This afternoon, the neighborhood’s elected officials have come out with a press release praising that plan. They noted: The new DOT safety plan will include a number of improvements: widened sidewalks and shortened crosswalks at intersections along … Continue reading
 Delancey Street at Clinton Street, on Jan. 13, after Dashane Santana was struck and killed by a minivan. If ever there were reason to attend a Community Board 3 meeting, this is it. On Wednesday night, CB3′s transportation committee will hold a special session to discuss what to do about Delancey Street, one of the city’s … Continue reading
You’ve heard all the buzz about the NYC Bike Share program for the last few months. Maybe you voted online for a station in the neighborhood. It’s scheduled to launch this summer, and this weekend is your chance to get up close and personal with the program at an open house on Saturday, Jan. 28 from noon … Continue reading
 Photo by: thelodownny.com. The new streetlight going in on East Houston Street, at Clinton, … Continue reading
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